ER and, Oh God, Won't Someone Think of the Artists

I don't think I'm alone in this but I've been rewatching ER now that it's on Netflix. It's a fun exercise in being baffled by your own memory – genuinely did not remember that Corday and Greene were a thing? Had no idea Benton had a son with Renee from Ally McBeal? But the trains outside Carol's house seared on my brain. But the thing I've been thinking about a lot is how much career stability is this one show responsible for?

I'm sorry if you're already aware of how things work, but I'm going to explain residuals for those who don't know. I'm going to explain via the medium of Pedro Pascal.

Pedro Pascal was in the season four premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (Spoilers for the season four premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer). He played a random student Buffy talked to briefly who then disappears – and briefly reappears as a vampire and gets staked.

It's not a big role, two or three scenes, but because of that role he was able to keep chipping away at a career for the next fifteen years until he was cast as the sexiest thing any of us had ever seen in Game of Thrones. After which he landed Narcos and now he's everyone's favourite boy.